Suspension device for hammocks



(No Model.)

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SUSPENSION DEVICE FOR HAMMQGKS. No. 364,190. Patented May 31, 1887.

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WITNESSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS STULZ AND CHARLES T. NVILSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUSPENSION DEVICE FOR HAMMOCKS.

SPBCIPICATION forming part ofLetters Patent No. 364,190, dated May 31,1887.

Application filed July 20, 1886. Serial No. -2(l8,5l3. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, LOUIs STULZ and CHARLES T. \VILSON, both citizensof the United States, residing in the city and county 5 of Philadelphia,State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inSuspension Devices for Hammocks,which improvement is fully set forth inthe following specification and accompanying drawings, in IO which-Figure 1 represents a perspective rear view of a hammock rope-lockembodying ourinvention. Fig. Z-represents a perspective front view ofthe lock and attached rope as secured 15 to a post or support. 7 Fig. 3represents the opposite side of the look from that shown in Fig. 1, therope being'coiled around the arm in a different manner.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

Our invention consists of a lock for the rope of a hammock soconstructed that the rope is tightly held and the lock prevented fromslipping.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the lock, which is formed of aplate, A, with two openings, B, therein, an arm, 0, extending laterallyfrom the plate, a hook, D, at the end of the arm, and a spur, E,whichprojects from what may be termed the back of the plate.

The operation is as follows: The rope is passed through one of theopenings B and its end knotted, so as not to slip through the same. Therope is then looped around a post, 5 tree, &c., from which the hammockis to be suspended, and passed through the other opening of the plate;but where the rope may be applied over the top of the post the loop maybe primarily formed and then thrown over the said post. The rope is nextdrawn up, whereby it tightens around the post, and the plate is forcedagainst the latter, so that the spur O enters the same. The rope is nowwound around the arm C, so as to be knotted or snubbed, as it were,thereon,whereby it is prevented from playing out, it being seen theholder remains engaged with the same. and the portion of the rope aroundthe arm 0 is prevented from slipping therefrom, owing to the hook D atthe end of the same acting as a guard. \Vhen the rope is loosened on thearm it may play out, so as to relieve the loop around the post anddisengage the spur therefrom,whereby the lock or hammock may be raisedor lowered or the holder entirely removed from the post, as desired.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

A look fora hammock-rope, consisting of the plate A, formed of a singlepiece of metal having openings therein and provided with a lateralprojecting arm, 0, having a hook, D, and a spur, E, all substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

LOUIS STULZ. CHAS. T. \V'ILSON.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WInDEnsHnnr,

A. P. GRANT.

that the rope tightly embraces the post and

